1.   The flood was a second major story, and the staff rose to meet the challenge.

2.   An earth berm, banked against the rear of the ground floor, rises to meet the terrace in a gentle grass slope.

3.   Above, American reconnaissance planes circled like hawks, evading the storm of Communist anti-aircraft shells and bullets rising to meet them.

4.   In the year since Farrakhan issued his National Press Club challenge, two major US media outlets rose to meet it.

5.   It has raised expectations, and children will rise to meet them, he contended.

6.   Mr. Lickey rose to meet me, took my hand in his, lifted it to his lips and kissed the back of it.

7.   So they rose to meet it.

8.   The other playoff-killer last year was that then-goaltender Andy Moog could not rise to meet the prime-time effort of Joseph.

9.   The sorts of role models that have emerged since the terrorist attacks have illustrated how decent men and women rise to meet all sorts of challenges.

10.   They would not wait to play them to rise to meet them.